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March 2024
Hanoi City Walk (ENG) – Buildings and Barbers, a Battle and Burials. FULL
24 March is the 15th day of the lunar month. This walk is scheduled when its 1st or 15th of the lunar month as we need to go inside the last venue which is more likely to be open on one of these dates THIS WALK IS FULL. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST, if you have signed up and are confirmed but need to cancel your space please let us know 1-2 days before the walk so we can…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (ENG): Yết Kiêu Street area – FULL
THIS WALK IS FULL - PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST We start our stroll outside the Friendship culture palace on Trần Hưng Đạo, up to Thiền Quang Lake and back up via Yết Kiêu Street. We look at the previous lives of some buildings, we visit some pagodas you may not have been to before, we talk about how Thống Nhất Park was created and what was there before, what statues 'guard' the circus and where they originally came…
Find out more »Film night: I See Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass
***FVH FILM NIGHT IS BACK*** Our film night feature movies about Vietnam - they may be old, iconic films, shorts, or contemporary. Produced and directed by Vietnamese film makers. Depending on the film we may sometimes invite the director to join us for Q&A. Our film nights used to be at Cinemateque. When it closed we moved to VFFS (Vietnam Feature Films Studios) before finding our new home with TPD. “I see yellow flowers on the green grass” is a…
Find out more »April 2024
An evening with author Le Ly Hayslip
What better way to start the month off than with a talk by Le Ly Hayslip - Vietnamese-American writer, memoirist and humanitarian. In March the FVH bookclub reviewed her book 'When Heaven and Earth Changed Places'. And fortuitously Le Ly herself is in Hanoi in early April. Thank you to the FVH bookclub for proposing this event and to one of the members for contacting Le Ly. Thank you to Le Ly for making time in her busy schedule for FVH,…
Find out more »FVH Language Exchange Club and meet up – let’s talk languages
FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CONVERSATION, LANGUAGES AND VIETNAM FVH is one very big community of like-minded people who adore Vietnamese culture, history and heritage. And we include a huge number of nationalities from every continent. So this is a fun social way to meet up and share our languages within the context of Vietnam. We meet every Tuesday evening 6.30pm-7.30pm at Abracado (vegan restaurant) 60 Tô Ngọc Vân. Google map link – https://goo.gl/maps/Z1QZhf457DRuQ7Fz7 https://www.facebook.com/abracado.vegan/ Dates for April day month Tues 02 April 2024…
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